Hellmut Trienekens

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Hellmut Trienekens (born May 15, 1938 in Boxmeer / Netherlands) is a German entrepreneur . From 1968 to 2002 he was managing director and board member of Trienekens AG and its predecessor companies.

Life and education

He spent his early childhood in Süchteln , which is now a district of Viersen . During the war years, the family lived temporarily in Boxmeer. After school and business school in Viersen, Trienekens also completed his training as a wholesaler there. In 1961 he joined his father Mathias' company. After his death in 1968, Hellmut Trienekens took over the company. In the following decades he expanded the original trading company into a waste disposal company in Germany. In 2002 Trienekens retired from business life. The privateer lives in Viersen-Süchteln to this day.

Hellmut Trienekens has been with Hildegard Trienekens, geb. Papenburg, married. The couple has three daughters.

Professional activity

At the age of 23, Hellmut Trienekens joined his father Mathias' company. In 1923 he founded the "Hay and Straw Wholesalers M. Trienekens". Until 1970, the company mainly traded in hay and straw, which farmers used as fodder and paper mills used to make cardboard. Since 1954, the company also owned a garbage truck for the local household garbage collection and an initial order for the weekly collection of garbage from 3000 households in Süchteln.

After the death of his father in 1968, Hellmut Trienekens took over the management. Trienekens set up a modern waste disposal company. While the focus was initially on transport services (garbage collection), it soon included its own landfills, sorting systems and laboratories for waste analysis, and later investments in waste incineration plants. Over the years, the company has expanded continuously through the acquisition of numerous local waste disposal companies, especially in the Rhineland. At the turn of the millennium, the company was considered the largest waste disposal company in Germany.

Hellmut Trienekens is considered a pioneer of systematic recycling. At the beginning of the 1980s, his company built Germany's first raw material recovery plant in Neuss .

In 2002 Hellmut Trienekens retired from active business life. The family had previously sold the last 50 percent of the company's shares to RWE Umwelt AG, with whom there had been a joint venture since 1989.

In connection with the construction of the incinerator Cologne flowed -Niehl bribes 2002, a criminal case against those involved, among other Trienekens AG initiated. However, no action was taken against Hellmut Trienekens himself for health reasons.

2004 Trienekens was due to tax evasion to a two-year, amounting to 2.7 million euros suspended sentence suspended, in prison and a fine condemned by ten million euros. In 2010 he was convicted again: for infidelity in four cases to a total prison sentence of two years, which was also suspended, and a fine of one million euros.

Social and social engagement

Among other things, Trienekens made it possible in 1989, with support of two million marks, to renovate the Irmgardis pen, which had fallen into disrepair since the Second World War, into the first old people's home in the Süchteln district of Viersen. He also supported the new building of the district music school and the construction of the ASV Süchteln clubhouse.

literature

  • 75-year history (s), Trienekens 1923-1998 . Viersen 1998
  • White paper on the entrepreneurial, societal and social commitment of the medium-sized entrepreneur Hellmut Trienekens . Viersen 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EGN Niederrhein: EGN Profile - Company Profile - History - EGN Entsorgungsgesellschaft Niederrhein mbH. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  2. a b Trienekens: The sudden end of a garbage baron - manager magazin . In: manager magazin . ( manager-magazin.de [accessed on January 2, 2018]).
  3. http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Trienekens-muss-eine-Mio-zahlen-article789999.html
  4. Caritas wants to receive Irmgardis donation. Retrieved January 2, 2018 (German).
  5. Red White Silver GmbH: History. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  6. ^ Paul Offermanns: Viersen: ASV opens club house. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .